JAPAN: Son of Son of Sun

More than sheltered has been Japan's little
Crown Prince Akihito; he has lived in a positive vacuum. At the age of
three he was removed even from his own family, shut up in a house of
774 mats (3,096 square yards of floor space) on the Palace grounds,
under the constant surveillance of four tutors, two governesses, three
physicians and 60 retainers. At the age of five he was permitted to
meet eight hand-picked noble moppets, who visited his compound on
Saturdays and squabbled over his princely bicycle and sandbox, while
Akihito stood by and gaped.